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{{About Moodle}}
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Moodle 3.2 focuses on improving the user experience and on accessibility. A new theme with better navigation, improved messaging, step-by-step user tours and the ability to import competency frameworks complement significant activity enhancements such as discussion locking, extra media player options and LTI 2 compliance.
Following on from Moodle 3.2’s focus on improving accessibility and users’ experience, Moodle 3.3 continues to enhance these objectives through a number of new features and improvements.  
Read on for Moodle 3.2 highlights or watch the Moodle 3.2 highlights screencasts on our [https://www.youtube.com/playlist? Youtube page].
Read on for Moodle 3.3 highlights or watch the [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxcO_MFWQBDcKOIakLZwAhsoKSZXz9Cz9  Moodle 3.3 highlights screencasts] on our YouTube page.


Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the [[:dev:Moodle 3.2 release notes|Moodle 3.2 release notes]].
Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the [[:dev:Moodle 3.3 release notes|Moodle 3.3 release notes]].
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             <h4>Better navigation with Boost</h4>
             <h4>Better Office integration</h4>
             <p> A new responsive theme[[Boost theme|Boost]] improves navigation within and between courses. </p>
             <p>Log in, easily access documents from Microsoft Office and the Google G-Suite and [[Linked Logins|link your accounts.]].</p>
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             <h4>Media player enhancements</h4>
             <h4>Improved dashboard</h4>
             <p> Your favourite video types display across devices and browsers with subtitle and caption support.</p>
             <p>Thanks to this [https://moodleassociation.org/ Moodle Users Association (MUA)] project, you can now check course progress, upcoming activities and gradeable activities from the new [[Course overview|Course overview block]].</p>
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             <h4>Discussion locking</h4>
             <h4>Font Awesome</h4>
             <p>Easily close forum discussions after a certain period. Read more..</p>
             <p>This popular, responsive set of icons is now available in core for the benefit of everyone.</p>
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             <h4>Interactive report charts</h4>
             <h4>Emoji support</h4>
             <p>Interactive and responsive charts now show reports dynamically to course participants.</p>
             <p>Brighen up communication with fun emoji characters anywhere that text can be entered</p>
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<h4>Assignment overrides</h4>
            <h4>Set a 'Grade by' reminder</h4>
             <p>Easily change assignment deadlines for individuals or groups. [[Using Assignment|Read more...]]</p>
             <p> Set a reminder to alert you in the course overview </p>
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             <h4>Workshop portfolio export</h4>
             <h4>Specify assignment file types</h4>
             <p> Workshop submissions and assessments may be exported to an external portfolio by students and teachers. See [[Workshop settings]]</p>
             <p> Choose which file types students can upload to their assignments during the [[Assignment settings|assignment set up.]]</p>
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             <h4>Lesson page duplication</h4>
             <h4>Collapse comments in assignments</h4>
             <p>Quickly copy a lesson page to use as a template in your lesson activity.</p>
             <p>Collapse assignment feedback comments for greater readability. [[Assignment settings|Read more...]]</p>
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             <h4>Course end dates</h4>
             <h4>Better activity completion management</h4>
             <p>You can now set an end date as well as a start date for your course.</p>
             <p>Bulk edit and update [[Activity completion settings|activity completion settings]] in your courses.</p>
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            <p>Drag and drop media directly onto the course page.</p>
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             <h4> Rubrics calculation improvements</h4>
             <h4>'Stealth' activities - available but not shown</h4>
             <p>Arbitrary scoring is now possible when grading with a rubric.</p>
             <p>An improvement on  'orphaned sections', links may now be made to activities which are not shown on the course page. See [[Stealth activities]].</p>
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             <h4>Easily share course content</h4>
             <h4>More tag areas</h4>
             <p>LTI compliance and a new Content item feature make sharing across sites and courses more user-friendly. </p>
             <p>Glossary entries, forum posts and book chapters may now be tagged for easier searching.</p>
         
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             <h4> New customisable Boost theme</h4>
             <h4> OAuth2 authentication</h4>
             <p>Create [[Competency frameworks|competency frameworks]] for use throughout the site. (A plugin will also allow you to import from external sources.)</p>
             <p> Allow users to authenticate with Google G-Suite or Microsoft Office accounts and manage files from associated drives. [[OAuth 2 services|Read more...]]</p>
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             <h4>Competency framework import/export </h4>
             <h4> Document file converters</h4>
             <p>Create [[Learning plans|learning plan templates]] and apply them to individuals or whole cohorts.</p>
             <p>Add plugins for document file conversion, such as from Google Drive. [[Document converters|Read more...]]</p>
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             <h4>User tours</h4>
             <h4>Improved MySQL support</h4>
             <p>Let your your staff and students search the site by enabling [[Global search]] and installing Solr.</p>
             <p>[[MySQL full unicode support|Improved support of multibyte unicode characters on MySQL databases]] means languages such as Japanese, Chinese and Korean work more naturally -and emoji characters are supported throughout the site .</p>
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             <h4>New media player plugins</h4>
             <h4> New "Stealth" mode setting</h4>
             <p>Teachers can annotate directly on uploaded submissions of different file types, not just PDF if unoconv 07 is installed. [[Assignment settings|Find out more]] </p>
             <p> A new admin setting extends the functionality to link to activities without showing them on the course page. See [[Stealth activities]].</p>
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            <p>If you’ve enabled a [[File system repository]] on your server for FTP uploading, your teachers can now search the folders in that repository.</p>
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             <h4>Improved messaging</h4>
             <h4> Learning analytics plugin</h4>
             <p>When a [[Folder resource]] contains many files, students can download them all in a zipped file.</p>
             <p>Be a part of Project inspire by installing the [https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_inspire Inspire plugin.]
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            <h4>Mobile app out of the box</h4>
            <p>Search all courses you have access to and quickly find that important resource using the [[Global search]].</p>
       
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[[Category:New features]]
[[Category:New features]]


  [[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 3.1]]
[[de:Neue Funktionalitäten]]
  [[fr:Nouveautés de Moodle 3.1]]
  [[es:Nuevas características de Moodle 3.3]]
  [[fr:Nouveautés de Moodle 3.3]]

Latest revision as of 16:30, 16 May 2017

Following on from Moodle 3.2’s focus on improving accessibility and users’ experience, Moodle 3.3 continues to enhance these objectives through a number of new features and improvements.

Read on for Moodle 3.3 highlights or watch the Moodle 3.3 highlights screencasts on our YouTube page.

Full details of the release with technical information can be found in the Moodle 3.3 release notes.


For all users

  • 33FontAwesome.png

    Font Awesome

    This popular, responsive set of icons is now available in core for the benefit of everyone.

  • 33emojis2.png

    Emoji support

    Brighen up communication with fun emoji characters anywhere that text can be entered

For teachers

  • 33GradeReminder2.png

    Set a 'Grade by' reminder

    Set a reminder to alert you in the course overview

  • 33TeacherAssignmentRestrictions.png

    Specify assignment file types

    Choose which file types students can upload to their assignments during the assignment set up.

  • 33CollapsibleComments.png

    Collapse comments in assignments

    Collapse assignment feedback comments for greater readability. Read more...

  • 33BulkEditActivityCompletion.png

    Better activity completion management

    Bulk edit and update activity completion settings in your courses.

  • 33DragDropMedia.png

    Drag and drop media

    Drag and drop media directly onto the course page.

  • 33StealthActivities.png

    'Stealth' activities - available but not shown

    An improvement on 'orphaned sections', links may now be made to activities which are not shown on the course page. See Stealth activities.

  • 33Tagging.png

    More tag areas

    Glossary entries, forum posts and book chapters may now be tagged for easier searching.

For administrators

  • 33OAuth2.png

    OAuth2 authentication

    Allow users to authenticate with Google G-Suite or Microsoft Office accounts and manage files from associated drives. Read more...

  • 33DocumentConverter.png

    Document file converters

    Add plugins for document file conversion, such as from Google Drive. Read more...

  • ProjectInspire Infographic1 Feb14-2017.png

    Learning analytics plugin

    Be a part of Project inspire by installing the Inspire plugin.